Interests

Education

National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory

PhD, Analytical Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder
BS, Chemistry, Hartwick College

Courses Taught

Chemistry 102: Chemistry and the Environment
Chemistry 110: General Chemistry I
Chemistry 111: General Chemistry II
Chemistry 410: Instrumental Analysis
Environmental Studies 480: The Scientific, Economic, and Institutional Challenges of Alternative Energy
Environmental Studies 480: The Future of Nuclear Power in the U.S.

“Solutions: What’s Being Done About Global Warming. Examples from a corporation, a community, and a college - how people and ideas can turn the corner on the greatest threat humans have ever faced…,” interview for DVD produced by Clean Air - Cool Planet with major funding provided by the Alida R. Messenger Charitable Lead Trust and additional support from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, and the New York Community Trust, copyright 2002.

“Verifying the steady state between NO and NO2: a small piece in the big picture of stratospheric ozone loss,” Hartwick College Chemistry Club and Department of Chemistry, Oneonta, NY, September 1999.

“Comparison of modeled and observed values of NO2 and JNO2 during the POLARIS mission,” Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS), Univerisity of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, June 1999.

“The photochemistry of reactive nitrogen in the high latitude summer stratosphere,” University of Colorado/CIRES Atmospheric Chemistry Symposium, Boulder, CO, November 1997.

“Evaluating the composition and reactivity of aerosols in the lower stratosphere using aircraft measurements,” Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, Providence, RI, October 1997.

“Emissions of HCFC-141b from newly constructed buildings on the Middlebury College Campus,” M. Douglas Dagan and L.A. Del Negro, Council on Undergraduate Research “Posters on the Hill” symposium, Washington, DC, April 2003.

“Production of methyl halides in Vermont Soils,” Michelle F. Clasquin and L.A. Del Negro, 225th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.

“Comparison of modeled and observed values of NO2 and JNO2 during the POLARIS mission,” Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, June 1999.

Environmental Research Laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and United States Department of Commerce Outstanding Scientific Paper Award for “Emission measurements of the Concorde supersonic aircraft in the lower stratosphere” (Science, 270, 70-74, 1995), December 1995.